Chapter 640: The World Cup and the Transfer Drama (Part I)

Let's turn the clock back to the moment when Real Madrid held a super parade to celebrate the treble on June 2 and announced their leave after luncheon the next day, when the media throughout Spain were standing outside the club's residence, outside the players' homes or near the airport, ready to catch and even be lucky enough to interview these stars who were about to rush to the national team training ground to make final preparations for the World Cup, with the two giants Hierro and Li Doudi as the leading figures, The semi-annual lineup adjustment meeting was held as planned in the conference room of the Valdebebas Sports City. As a member of the family, President Raul sat in on the discussion and expressed his support for the outcome at the end.

Although the Galacticos arguably had the best performance in team history during the season that just ended, with three of the most important titles in the bag, looking back on the past 10 months, everyone still agrees that the team is still a long way from perfect. If the first team is not properly updated and redeployed this summer, there is a great possibility of a significant drop in results next season, and several veterans who have been in football for more than a decade or even decades know that this is not alarmist.

Therefore, when the coach of the team proposed that the club needed to come up with all the resources to support his "reform" plan, although many high-level executives couldn't help but gasp, but with the help of Raul and Hierro, two bigwigs who have established enough authority, the final resolution was passed effortlessly and immediately put into action.

Soon, all the scouts of the club packed their bags in the shortest possible time and became one of the paparazzi who conducted a detailed 24-hour scouting of the world's top teams such as Brazil, Argentina, France, and Germany in the form of two people in charge of a team, collecting the latest developments of their transfer targets for Real Madrid. In addition, there are a number of experienced and capable scouts who will quietly visit the locations of several clubs, with similar goals to their colleagues, but with a somewhat unsightly approach, which we will talk about later.

The reason for this is also to reveal that Li Mudi does not move, and he is to make one or more big news, although there is an FM system in hand, the player's information is no secret for him, but in order to persuade the club's senior management to agree that he is simply crazy to the extreme plan, it is necessary to come up with reliable evidence, and under the premise that his secret plug-in cannot be made public, the most professional scouting evaluation has become an indispensable part.

So even if the amount of money spent on this operation is not small, it is still worth it, because every transaction in Li Mudi's plan is a large sum of 50 million euros (including salaries, signing fees, etc.), and there is no room for sloppiness. Moreover, after Real Madrid won the treble, the season's performance report will also show a very gratifying situation, and these necessary expenses are relatively a drop in the bucket.

Although the official financial report is usually not released until the beginning of September, judging from the general data provided by the club's finance department, the operating figures of the Galaxy in the 2025-26 season should hopefully go down in history, as they are likely to be the first club in football history to reach a total of €1 billion in total revenue in a season.

And because the team did not make a big transfer in the summer and winter transfer window, but obtained a certain amount of money by purging players who were not in the plan, Real Madrid's net profit in the last season is also very likely to reach the level of close to 110 million, which is also a new historical record.

So the word "deep pockets" to describe the current Galaxy Battleship can be said to be too apt, and when he saw the cash balance in his bank account, Raul even started to renovate the Bernabeu again, and you know how terrifying that number is.

But he can only think about it, because until his friend Li Mudi completes the lineup change// reform plan, this money cannot be used anywhere else, because no one knows whether the process will go smoothly and what the final price will be.

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As the quadrennial football event has started again, it is no surprise that the Real Madrid coach received invitations from Celestial Vision, the BBC and Spanish national television in April, hoping that he could travel to North America as a guest commentator during the World Cup to share the unique perspective and professional analysis of the world's number one manager with the fans.

It's just that when Lin Yun'er's belly is getting bigger and bigger and she needs someone to accompany and take care of her for a long time, Li Mudi didn't agree to any of them, and even the invitation to write a column issued by "Marca" was rejected together. But that doesn't mean he stays on a farm in Mallorca all summer – the air is so much better than in Madrid, so the family decided to go to this world-famous tourist destination, and over the next month or so, the Real Madrid coach was able to see the Real Madrid boss frequently commuting between Barajas and Parma, much to the detriment of many paparazzi to know what the hell was going on in the Celestial Empire.

As a result, it took two days to find out the truth of the facts, that is, this guy actually held a "summer improvement school" at a medium-sized football training base on the outskirts of Madrid, which not only included some recognized potential stocks in Real Madrid's youth team, but also two special players. One is the Shuangbijia of the Celestial Empire men's football team that was finally confirmed after more in-depth investigation by reporters - after all, in the eyes of Westerners, the yellow people from East Asia basically look the same, and it is difficult to distinguish who is who is in an unfamiliar situation, and it is a secret photo when probing, and it is understandable that accurate information was not obtained for a while.

As for the second place, there is no need to rummage through the information, Riverola, who has just been rated as one of the top ten new stars in the future by authoritative sports media in Spain such as "As", is naturally the object that all reporters who are engaged in this line of work must be familiar with, and before Real Madrid and Valladolid have both confirmed that the transfer of this talented forward has been reached, then only a relatively clear side photo and the requirements are too high associative ability, Everyone can quickly guess why the 17-year-old, who is known as Kaka II by many experts, joined the training camp opened by Li Mudi in advance.

With further media digging, the situation of Shuangbijia's previous post-injury recovery here soon appeared on the Internet, and he has passed the trial of Albacete, who has just returned to the Spanish Second Division, and signed a new 12-month contract, but because the new club has been on vacation, he decided to stay with his compatriots for special training.

As for the other youngsters, they voluntarily come to receive guidance from the first-team manager, and only need to pay a slightly lower than normal level of food to get the secret of improving their ability as soon as possible from the world's most famous young player mentor, I believe that not many people will refuse because they have lost this holiday.

In particular, Zori, who was not selected for the World Cup squad, also hurriedly ended a short break with Elias Zidane and Jorge Solsano on June 15 and joined the training camp together.

In the face of the reporter's interview, Li Mudi did not fall into the other party's language trap, but said that he always hoped that Rafablica (the general name of Real Madrid's youth training) could appear the next Raul, Guti and Casillas, so when he saw that there were many good seedlings gathered in the youth teams at all levels but could only get the chance to get straight to the first team according to the normal plan of the club, it was inevitable that there would be an anxious psychology, so he took advantage of this holiday to open this training camp and did not involve other affairs.

It's just that no matter how he explains, in the eyes of the outside world, this is an important signal that Real Madrid will pay more attention to its own youth training. Correspondingly, in order to leave enough space for these future stars, the first team will inevitably make some personnel changes in the summer window, which may become super news that will affect Spanish and European football as a whole.

So, when the opening match of the World Cup opened, the eyes of the whole world were drawn to the North American continent, the European football world with the Western media as the center of gravity frequently appeared the news that the new treble is about to usher in a major earthquake, after Varane has confirmed that he will return to Ligue 1, the veteran Courtois is also dissatisfied with the problem of competing with Andre Lunin for playing time, and his seven years at the Bernabeu are likely to end this summer.

Since the 34-year-old veteran is following the national team to the World Cup as the second goalkeeper at this time, the specific situation is not known, but from the mouth of his agent Henlotte, people still know that the former world's best goalkeeper is indeed unhappy with the situation of a downward trend in playing time for two consecutive years, and as for whether he will leave the team, it will need to be calculated after the end of this last tournament.

Although this statement did not say death, the meaning revealed could not be more obvious, that is, Courtois did have the idea of changing to a new environment. And his competitive form has also been excellent, even if he only got 24 appearances in the past season, he has also completed 16 clean sheets, a proportion of 66.67% of the world's top standards, and there is no shortage of quality suitors.

On 27 June, just after the first round of the World Cup group stage, Real Madrid received as many as seven inquiries about the Belgian goalkeeper, including Roma and Everton, who have qualified for next season's European competition.

For this experienced veteran who has helped the team win many honors, Li Mudi's previous plan is indeed a little unkind, and the former will gradually match his role in the national team in the past two years, that is, as Real Madrid's second goalkeeper to become an important insurance for the team's last defensive line. Even in terms of ability, he is not necessarily inferior to Lu Ning, but under the natural law of upgrading, the rise of the younger generation is a matter that will be understood by the vast majority of people, and this is not an objective fact that can be changed by the efforts of one or two people.

Even if Casillas, who retired from Real Madrid many years ago, has been speaking out in support of Courtois, and his former rival Navas has generously said that there is still a lot of fuel in the fuel tank of the Belgian veteran, but in the eyes of Raul, Hierro and Li Mudi and others, the tights with only the last year left on the contract will definitely not belong to the future of the team, so even if he is very reluctant to let him leave at this time, it is not completely unacceptable to be able to exchange some transfer fees, and the key is to see the player's own wishes.

As a result, when his agent Henlotte showed up in Valdebebas two days later, it was clear to everyone that the two sides were really going to part peacefully this summer. Soon, the Red Wolves defeated a group of competitors with a main position plus a small salary cut, and brought Courtois, who can still rank in the top 15 in the world in the goalkeeper position, to the Italian capital for 7 million euros, which was unanimously considered to be a big bargain.

And just when the outside world thought that Real Madrid's goalkeeper battle for many seasons finally ended with the departure of the older generation of main players, the big drama directed by Li Mudi had just been staged.

On July 3, the third day of the opening of the transfer market, when the transfer rumors of many big-name stars were still speculating or predicting in the mouths of the media, the "Madrid Sports Newspaper", which is niche in sales and fame, suddenly broke the news that the main Ukrainian goalkeeper Andrei Luning, who is competing in the World Cup, rejected his request to the club to renew his contract through his agent, which directly stimulated the nerves of the former. According to reporters guarding outside the hotel where the Ukrainian national team stayed, the door god who was in his prime could be said to have always been cloudy on his face after learning the news, and a trace of a smile appeared.

Although his agent and Real Madrid director Hierro refuted the rumors the next day, when it came to the renewal of the contract, no one denied that it was indeed a long way from reaching an agreement.

As a result, many articles such as so-called insider analysis soon appeared on the Internet, in fact, most of them believed that Courtois's voluntary departure gave Lunin more confidence and dared to make more demands in the negotiation process with Real Madrid, but angered Hierro, who was having a headache about how to solve the problem of the team's excessive salary ratio.

The Real Madrid director even tore his face with Lu Ning's agent in person, saying that the next round of negotiations between the two sides would not be opened in a short time, pushing this slightly unexpected conflict to the point of unpredictability.

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